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- Bo Diddley: Pollution
- Joan Baez: Rejoice in The Sun
- Miley Cyrus: Wake Up America
- Depeche Mode: The Landscape Is Changing
- Loudon Wainwright: Hard Day on The Planet
- Jack Johnson: The 3 R’s
- Talking Heads
- John Denver: Earth Day Every Day
- Lil Dicky: Earth
- John Prine: Paradise
Bo Diddley’s “Pollution” was recorded, appropriately, at New York’s Soundview Environmental Studios, and the song appeared on the album Another Dimension. The five-minute funky single is an angry protest song about the dangers of “throwing garbage in the street.” The striking cover photograph for the Chess Records single featured a stack of discard...
Silent Runningwas a cult environmental-themed science fiction thriller, starring Bruce Dern, which was about a time when plant life on Earth had become extinct. Folk singer Joan Baez recorded two songs for the soundtrack, the most famous of which is “Rejoice In The Sun,” a song that celebrates the power of natural life. The song was composed by Pet...
Greta Thunberg is the 21st-century’s most famous teenage environmental activist – the young Swede even performed on a 2019 climate song with The 1975 – but perhaps the most famous environmental song by a teenager was Miley Cyrus’s hit “Wake Up America,” which the former Disney starlet released on her 2008 album Breakout. The lyrics, co-written by C...
Alan Wilder joined Depeche Mode in 1982 after answering an anonymous advertisement in Melody Maker for a young synthesizer player. He quickly established himself as an influential member of the band and his songwriting became an important part of the band’s repertoire. It was Wilder who composed the band’s urgent message about “taking good care of ...
Satire about environmentalism is a hard trick to pull off in songwriting, but few are better equipped to do it than the droll doomsayer Loudon Wainwright. His 1986 song “Hard Day On The Planet” was eerily prescient, with lyrics about “a new disease every day” and a reference to the burning forests of California. “In California, the body counts keep...
“Three is a magic number” sings Jack Johnson on the 2006 song “The 3 R’s.” The magic three in this case are “reduce, reuse, and recycle,” the core elements of the 3R Initiative promoting the effective use of resources and materials, a policy agreed on at the G8 Sea Island Summit in June 2004. Singer-songwriter Johnson has always been passionate abo...
The line “And as things fell apart, nobody paid much attention,” taken from the Talking Heads song “(Nothing But) Flowers,” still stands as a sharp commentary on the state of denial that still afflicts much of the modern world. The line was used by Bret Easton Ellis as an epigraph to his novel American Psycho. “(Nothing But) Flowers,” co-written by...
A huge supporter of Earth Day, John Denver, known for his iconic songs “Annie’s Song” and “Take Me Home, Country Roads,” was one of 20th-century music’s great champions of environmental causes. In 1990, the year he released an album called Earth Songs, he was given the first World Ecology Award by the International Center for Tropical Ecology at th...
“Let’s save the world,” tweeted Justin Bieber, when he confirmed that he was one of the superstars joining Lil Dicky (Dave Burd) on the animated music video for his charity song “Earth.” Released right around Earth Day 2019, Rapper Lil Dicky, star of the hilarious television show Dave, eventually persuaded Ariana Grande, Ed Sheeran, Snoop Dogg, Sia...
In 1971, singer-songwriter John Prine wrote his marvelous song “Paradise” about the environmental damages of strip mining and the destruction it wreaked on small communities. “Paradise,” which was also known as “Mr. Peabody’s Coal Train,” was about Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, the town his parents had grown up in – and how it was ruined by a coal c...
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" Planet Earth " is the debut single by the English new wave band Duran Duran, released on 2 February 1981. It was an immediate hit in the band's native UK, reaching number 12 on the UK Singles Chart on 21 February, and did even better in Australia, hitting number 8 to become Duran Duran's first Top 10 hit anywhere in the world.
Planet Earth Lyrics. [Verse 1: Simon Le Bon] Only came outside to watch the night fall with the rain. I heard you making patterns rhyme. Like some new romantic looking for the TV sound. You'll...
